/**
* Standard post without multipart but already support on Factory (memory management)
*
* @return the list of HttpData object (attribute and file) to be reused on next post
*/
private static async Task <List <IInterfaceHttpData> > FormpostAsync(Bootstrap bootstrap,
Uri uriSimple, FileStream file, IHttpDataFactory factory,
IList <HeaderEntry <AsciiString, ICharSequence> > headers)
{
// XXX /formpost
// Start the connection attempt.
IChannel channel = await bootstrap.ConnectAsync(new IPEndPoint(ClientSettings.Host, ClientSettings.Port));
// Prepare the HTTP request.
IHttpRequest request = new DefaultHttpRequest(DotNetty.Codecs.Http.HttpVersion.Http11, HttpMethod.Post, uriSimple.ToString());
// Use the PostBody encoder
HttpPostRequestEncoder bodyRequestEncoder =
new HttpPostRequestEncoder(factory, request, false); // false => not multipart
// it is legal to add directly header or cookie into the request until finalize
foreach (var entry in headers)
{
request.Headers.Set(entry.Key, entry.Value);
}
// add Form attribute
bodyRequestEncoder.AddBodyAttribute("getform", "POST");
bodyRequestEncoder.AddBodyAttribute("info", "first value");
bodyRequestEncoder.AddBodyAttribute("secondinfo", "secondvalue ���&");
bodyRequestEncoder.AddBodyAttribute("thirdinfo", TextArea);
bodyRequestEncoder.AddBodyAttribute("fourthinfo", TextAreaLong);
bodyRequestEncoder.AddBodyFileUpload("myfile", file, "application/x-zip-compressed", false);
// finalize request
request = bodyRequestEncoder.FinalizeRequest();
// Create the bodylist to be reused on the last version with Multipart support
var bodylist = bodyRequestEncoder.GetBodyListAttributes();
var list = new List <object>();
// send request
list.Add(request);
// test if request was chunked and if so, finish the write
if (bodyRequestEncoder.IsChunked)
{ // could do either request.isChunked()
// either do it through ChunkedWriteHandler
list.Add(bodyRequestEncoder);
}
await channel.WriteAndFlushManyAsync(list);
// Do not clear here since we will reuse the InterfaceHttpData on the next request
// for the example (limit action on client side). Take this as a broadcast of the same
// request on both Post actions.
//
// On standard program, it is clearly recommended to clean all files after each request
// bodyRequestEncoder.cleanFiles();
// Wait for the server to close the connection.
await channel.CloseCompletion;
return(bodylist);
}
